Wednesday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed the fact that not everyone in the U.S. government was happy about the March on Washington in 1963. The Federal Bureau of Investigation -- under the leadership of ultra-conservative cross-dresser and closeted gay man J. Edgar Hoover -- considered the civil rights marchers to be instruments of the global communist threat within U.S. borders.
At his Tuesday , Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry was flanked by a number of conservative politicians and religious leaders. But one figure, who is a Democrat, may be more controversial and extreme than all of the others.
